Jimmy John Liautuad, owner of sandwich chain Jimmy John’s, told Fox Business the other day that the cost of Obamacare’s health insurance mandate could tack an extra 50 cents on the price of a sandwich.

In order to survive, Jimmy John figures he’s going to have to reduce much of his staff to part-time workers to avoid paying the exhorbitant fines Obamacare will impose starting next year–by the President’s design, after the election.

“If you have 40 or 50 employees at a restaurant, and the penalty is $2,000, and you’re going to pay $80,000 or $100,000 penalty, there goes the profit in your restaurant [link to fosterfriess.com]